Speeches by Griffiths.

“You may have already answered some of this in your previous answers, but I am interested in your approach to delivering low-carbon homes and neighbourhoods. What challenges have you faced scaling up the delivery of low-carbon homes?”

“I am conscious of taking too much more of my allocated time but, briefly, will low-carbon homes be more expensive than average homes? How do homes in Nansledan compare to the future homes standard?”

“I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman’s diagnosis, but I do agree that the fines need to be collected and distributed. The other issues that have been identified in my constituency—I imagine that they are wider issues, too—are illegal misconnections and cowboy builders, which we must crack down on. Without addressing …”

“I am pleased to be able to bring the House’s attention to my constituents’ concern about the continuing discharge of raw sewage into our local seas and other bodies of water. In my constituency, we saw 529 such discharges in 2024 from just 14 storm overflow points. These incidents continued for a combined duration of o…”

“It is the link between skills and technology.”

“Brian Holliday, let me ask you the same question.”

“Just to answer the specific question, let us stick with high‑heat processes. What degree of confidence do you have that we will get to those processes in the next five years?”

“I just wanted to follow up on the point you made, Professor Greenwood, about heat processes moving from gas-based production to electricity. This is also a question to Brian Holliday. Are you confident that we can create those new technologies that will enable that? At the moment, from what you have both been saying, w…”

“We have talked a lot about decarbonisation, but, in your experience, what has been the impact on the supply chain of BP in the North sea as a consequence of the decarbonisation over the last few years and the ambitions of the Government?”

“I would like answers of one word, or a handful of words, for this last question. The UK plans to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. Is this target realistic?”

“Steve, what changes, if any, would you make to the design of the mandate?”

“Can I just pick up on something that Markus said earlier about infrastructure? We can incentivise all we like, but is the demand not there because the cars are too expensive or because consumers have a lack of confidence in the UK’s charging infrastructure?”

“Alan, what would your view be?”

“Can I ask a quick counter-question based on something that you just said? There is the cost burden, but Steve very eloquently laid out the volume burden as well. Do you see it as part and parcel of the same thing?”

“We have heard from BMW on the ZEV mandate, which I will come back to. More generally, to what extent have the recent changes to the ZEV mandate alleviated pressure on UK manufacturers?”

“Sticking with residential buildings, what elements need to be in the future homes standard to prevent the need for new build homes to undergo retrofitting later on?”

“What effect could rules to limit embodied carbon have on controlling emissions from buildings?”

“The Business Secretary delayed and dithered for five months before meeting his US counterparts, and working people and businesses in the UK are paying the price for that dereliction of duty. Does he regret his refusal to meet his US counterparts earlier?”

“Could I ask a supplementary to what you have just been speaking about? You talked about the floating offshore wind platforms. I am just wondering why, given that there would be such significant reduction in seabed detriment, we would not be waiting for the technology to improve before we implement offshore wind in othe…”

“Have you set up what the governance arrangements will look like and how the MPA will be governed in the area around Diego Garcia? Will any of those waters be covered by the lease?”